- Looking for skilled Manual Test Analysts for our client based in the Northern Suburbs.
- Please note this is a Hybrid position - 2-3 days in office
- Must reside in Cape Town and this is a 12 month contract
- Must have Manual Testing Experience
- Experience with Testing Tools - JIRA, or Xray
- All manual testing activities during all phases of the SDLC from analysing business requirements to designing and executing test cases in different environments.
- Creating and maintaining test plans across projects.
- Creating and updating test cases to meet the business functional requirements.
- Assisting Junior test analysts in identifying functional scenarios.
- Reviewing and signing off test cases design and execution suits.
- Identifying, maintaining and flag test cases for regression and automation purpose
- Identifying, preparing, and maintaining test data in different test environment.
- Performing manual execution of the functional test cases within all test cycles (Unit, System Integration, UAT, Regression, Smoke, UAT);
- Making use of defect tracking tools such as JIRA to log, manage, resolve, and report on bugs/defects.
- Assisting Junior test analysts with their testing tasks.
- Participating in all scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, retros, daily stand-ups, demo, etc
- Providing estimate of test efforts in every sprint planning meeting.
- Providing progress feedback in daily stand-up meeting.
- Participating in business sign off meeting.
- Checking the quality and accuracy of all testing executed by the QA team.
- Support ways of work initiatives
- Support knowledge sharing initiatives
- Conduct test case design reviews and sign off
- Conduct test case execution review and sign off
- Assist in resolving QA technical issues
- Support environment alignment efforts with 3rd party integration team
- Support and maintain test process improvement initiatives
- Support and maintain test tools and frameworks
- Report on test progress to Stakeholders (Exco, PMS, Delivery team)
- Engage QAs in ways of work discussion (Wow)
- Encourage and apply QA Best practices
- Assist junior testers in estimating work effort in backlog and planning
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a senior test analyst
- At least 3 years experience in the Financial Services Industry working in Technology
- A bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent qualification
- ISTQB certification Test Analyst/Advanced Test Analyst Level (desired)
- Experience as a technical test analyst role on several large project within financial services (desired
- Experience in analysing complex system requirements
- Experience in writing and analysing SQL queries
- Experience in Testing Apis, microServices
- Experience working with SOAP UI and PostMan tools
- Experience testing across different browser and operating systems
- Experience working with QC/ALx
- Eperience working with agile team tools such as JIRA and confluence
- Ability to work within team following different development methodologies e.g. Waterfall, agile and KanBan
- Ability to understand and support the test strategy
- Ability to identify and influence process improvement opportunities
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
- Ability to supervise and guide junior test analysts
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on companys success
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
- Results Driven
- Flexible (able to adapt to change)
